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The Importance of Customer Self Service Portal

Kayako

In fact, 79% of US consumers say they have used a self-service portal for customer service, and 88% of customers expect companies to have self-service options. 65% use self-service channels because they like the convenience and don’t want to talk to agents or wait on hold to do simple routine tasks.

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Designing Self-Service for Customer Success

COPC

Organizations can make self-service a more desirable option by developing an easy-to-use system that resolves issues efficiently. See how Amazon Web Services (AWS) automates voice and non-voice communication using natural language ML services in our upcoming webinar.

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A Foundation for Exceptional Digital Self-Service Design

COPC

With digital self-service technology advancing at a phenomenal rate, why are interactions with chatbots and interactive voice response (IVR) systems still the sources of so many frustrating customer experiences? How do you ensure you aren’t frustrating customers with poorly designed IVR systems and chatbots?

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New KPI Metrics in the Era of Self Service

TechSee

Modern contact centers are made up of a complex combination of humans and virtual assistants – using both natural and artificial intelligence – operating over multiple channels and using a wide range of tools to solve customers’ issues. Customer care center metrics in the era of self-service clearly require a different approach.

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Call Deflection strategies in the age of self-service

TechSee

The goal is both to ensure customers receive the answers they are seeking in the most efficient manner and to reduce the number of inbound calls routed to human agents. Let’s explore four proven methods of boosting call deflection: User-friendly self-service channels. Proactive customer communications.

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Self-Service and Automation Customer Care Best Practices

Bright Pattern

Everyone’s talking about self-service automation, it seems. The more sophisticated and complex the system(s) undergoing automation, the more care and effort needs to be put into it to make it all work right. Of course, no one likes to talk about the amount of work that goes into automation.

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What does self-service really mean?

Interactions

In a similar way, vendors have begun to market self-service as a catch-all phrase. . People can serve themselves through customer service transactions, instead of having to speak to a live agent. But as far as I’m concerned, just starting with self-service isn’t really self-service at all.